Understanding Society User Support

10/23/2014

01:06 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #310 (Closed): RGSC at wave 2

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01:04 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #316 (In Progress): fibenothr_dv variable

Just to confirm that the variable will be available for all waves in this year's release together with several new in... Redmine Admin

10:07 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #316 (Closed): fibenothr_dv variable

I would like to use the variable fibenothr_dv (total income from benefits and other sources) in my analysis but there... Juliet Stone

10/22/2014

03:12 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #310: RGSC at wave 2

Dear Jakob,
OK thanks, that makes sense.
Best wishes,
Amanda Amanda Hughes

10/21/2014

12:34 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #307: Survey design xwaves

Daisy,
This all sounds reasonable to me, with one exception. The observations within clusters are not independent.... Peter Lynn

10/17/2014

03:59 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #313 (In Progress): Linkage between Wave 1, 2 and 3

Part of this can be attrition, but we continue to follow up original sample members even if we lose contact for a wav... Redmine Admin

02:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #315 (In Progress): Zero values in Cross Sectional adult weights

see #259 Revision due this November.
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12:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #315 (Closed): Zero values in Cross Sectional adult weights

I am using Wave 3 only of Understanding Society, and I am weighting the data using the combined cross sectional adult... Cinzia Rienzo

10/16/2014

10:18 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #314: Unequal number between "lived here continuously since the last interview" and the reasons

#257 mentions a move indicator based on postcode changes. The indicator is on the End User Licence (EUL) data (which ... Redmine Admin

10:04 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #314: Unequal number between "lived here continuously since the last interview" and the reasons

Hi Jakob,
Thank you very much for the explanation!
In terms of the administrative data on the household address... Frank Feng

07:55 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #314: Unequal number between "lived here continuously since the last interview" and the reasons

There are different approaches to studying moves and which approach to take will depend on the type of question you a... Redmine Admin

08:13 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #296 (Closed): zero value weights using c_indnsub_xw

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08:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #306 (Closed): Link with HES data?

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08:11 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #310: RGSC at wave 2

Employment status is asked in different ways, see e.g. #206 #229. In this case, jbrgsc_dv depends on jbsoc00, which i... Redmine Admin

08:00 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #311 (In Progress): Possibility to merge BHPS and Understanding Society

There is a section on this in the user guide.
Jakob Redmine Admin

07:59 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #312: Issue with "Self-completion Best Friends module"

The variables from this module will be in the revision of Wave 3 expected for release this November.
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07:57 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #302 (Closed): Ethnic group sample sizes in older age-ranges

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10/15/2014

05:49 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #314 (Closed): Unequal number between "lived here continuously since the last interview" and the reasons

I'm still working on the Wave 3. There is a variable "c_adcts" about "Lived continuously at this address since last i... Frank Feng

05:40 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #313 (Closed): Linkage between Wave 1, 2 and 3

I'm working out the ethnic group in Wave 3, but I notice that most of them are "inapplicable". I knew that it only pr... Frank Feng

04:29 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #312 (Closed): Issue with "Self-completion Best Friends module"

Hello!
I was very interested in the variables concerning the "Self-completion Best Friends module". However, when ... Sergio Lo Iacono

10/14/2014

11:01 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #311 (Closed): Possibility to merge BHPS and Understanding Society

I am working with the BHPS and I am looking for a possibility to merge these data with the data form Understanding So... Janina Zeh

10/09/2014

07:07 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #305: Mixed race sample in wave 1 and 2

Hi Jakob,
Thanks for your help. I managed to merge the two waves with all the variables that I need.
Now, I am ... Jo-Pei Tan

10/08/2014

03:05 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #310 (Closed): RGSC at wave 2

Hello,
Could you tell me how the wave 2 variable b_jbrgsc_dv, 'Current job: Registrar General's Social Class' was ... Amanda Hughes

09:12 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #309 (Closed): Unmatched District codes

I am using Understanding society Wave 3, along with the Special License, Local Authority District.
I am matching th... Cinzia Rienzo

10/02/2014

03:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #304 (Closed): Big 5 Personality Traits Main survey wave 3

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09/30/2014

06:56 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #308 (Closed): Current and past employment and non-employment at UKHLS wave 2

Hello,
I have a couple questions about employment and non-employment spells from wave 2.
1. In wave 2 of UKHLS,... Amanda Hughes

03:46 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #306 (In Progress): Link with HES data?

We are currently applying for research data linkage to HES. Plans and updates for data linkage can be followed here;
... Redmine Admin

03:36 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #296: zero value weights using c_indnsub_xw

Thanks Peter,
Realsing the other waves include relevant auxillary data for calculating the weights (which is not a... Esther Curnock

03:13 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #296: zero value weights using c_indnsub_xw

Esther,
This is essentially a trade-off between bias and variance. As you say, using all the cases but no weightin... Peter Lynn

12:41 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #296: zero value weights using c_indnsub_xw

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09:31 AM Understanding Society User Support Support #307 (Closed): Survey design xwaves

Hi, I have constructed a confidence interval for a linear combination of point estimates across BHPS waves 1, 2 and 3... Daisy McGregor

09/29/2014

04:28 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #296: zero value weights using c_indnsub_xw

Esther,
First, apologies for the delay in responding to this. It seems to me that the main factor contributing to ... Peter Lynn

12:15 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #306 (Closed): Link with HES data?

Can you tell me whether Understanding Society has/plans to link any of their data with hospital episode statistics or... Emily Williams

09/25/2014

08:10 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #305 (In Progress): Mixed race sample in wave 1 and 2

The ethnic group question, w_racel, is only asked of new adults in the study. We provide a cross-wave version of that... Redmine Admin

07:33 PM Understanding Society User Support Support #305 (Closed): Mixed race sample in wave 1 and 2

Hello, I hope you can help me. I have downloaded waves 1and 2 in SPSS format.
I am interested to look at mixed ra... Jo-Pei Tan